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These discussions are crucial for getting an early heads up, and coordinating the handling and deployment of fixes before they are made public.<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate that Microsoft qualifies for membership alongside the likes of Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE, he cited Microsoft&#8217;s Azure Sphere and the Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) 2 as examples of distro-like builds.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/04\/17\/microsoft_azure_sphere_iot_chip\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure Sphere<\/a> is Microsoft&#8217;s take on edge computing, with its own flavor of Linux running on Arm-based hardware. It has, however, resolutely remained in preview. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/06\/13\/wsl_2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WSL 2<\/a>, also in preview, is based on a tweaked version of the Linux 4.19 kernel and took a bow for Windows Insiders earlier in June. Levin reckons it will be generally available in 2020 (so its official release won&#8217;t coincide with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/06\/21\/summer_is_here_microsoft_oh_no_it_isnt\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasingly mythical 19H2<\/a> build of Windows 10.)<\/p>\n<p>Levin went on to highlight that Microsoft has plenty of users not employed by the Windows giant, its Linux builds aren&#8217;t based on someone else&#8217;s distribution and, of course, it contributes to the community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2014\/10\/20\/nadella_cloud.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Satya Nadella speaking at a Microsoft cloud event\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"Open-source 'love' fairly runneth over at cloud event\">Redmond top man Satya Nadella: &#8216;Microsoft LOVES Linux&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/10\/20\/microsoft_cloud_event\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Levin has indeed been an active member of the community. A glance at the changelog for the 5.0.15 Linux kernel is peppered with his sign-offs, often along with Greg Kroah-Hartman, a fellow at the Linux Foundation. It was therefore not surprising to see Kroah-Hartman vouch for Levin. Kroah-Hartman pointed out that Levin has full write permissions to the stable kernel trees, and applauded Microsoft&#8217;s application to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft would join such Linux luminaries as Google&#8217;s Chrome OS team and Red Hat on the list. Penguinistas concerned that the number-two cloud flinger&#8217;s appearance is a sign of the creeping corporatisation of the Linux world&#8217;s once carefree free-for-all would be well advised to note that another kindly, caring software giant, Oracle, also has representatives on the list. And don&#8217;t forget: most Linux kernel development is done by engineers working at organizations like IBM-gobbled Red Hat, Intel, and the Linux Foundation these days, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It is indeed a measure of how far Microsoft, famed for jealously guarding its software secrets and once <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2001\/06\/02\/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describing Linux as a cancer<\/a>, has come that it has the distro chops to qualify for lists dedicated to dealing with security issues affecting open source software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat were seeing here is that Microsoft wants access to early security alerts on Linux,\u201d said open-source pioneer Bruce Perens, in a phone call with <em>The Register<\/em> on Thursday. \u201cThat\u2019s why specifically they\u2019re asking to be on this list. They\u2019re joining it as a Linux distributor because that\u2019s how it\u2019s structured. Microsoft obviously has a lot of Linux plays, and it\u2019s their responsibility to fix known security bugs as quickly as other Linux distributors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perens said he would expect large cloud providers to do the same if they haven\u2019t already. \u201cI would expect Chrome OS has the same kinds of problems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <em>Register<\/em> reader Alan J. Wylie, who forwarded us the thread. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/Author\/Thomas-Claburn\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Claburn<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/06\/27\/microsoft_linux_distro_list\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows giant cheered on by Linux Foundation as it seeks membership of private security-focused message board Microsoft&#8217;s transformation into a fully paid-up member of the Linux love-train continued this week as the Windows giant sought to join the exclusive club that is the official linux-distros mailing list.\u2026 READ MORE 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